Narrative writing can be incredibly personal, which makes it easy for some students and difficult for others. Our narrative writing graphic organizer bundle can help students of all ages plan out and write strong narrative essays and creative stories. The organizers are simple to use and free to download.
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Here’s what you’ll get in the narrative writing bundle:
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One-Page Narrative Writing Worksheet
This worksheet is an all-in-one guide to narrative writing! Students can map out their composition, making notes about the topic, theme, setting, characters, and plot. It also includes a handy checklist to remind them to add details, ensure they have a beginning, middle, and end, and more.
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What’s Your Story? Topic and Theme
For students who are writing longer essays or need more guidance, try our set of detailed organizers. This one helps kids brainstorm ideas, choose a story they want to tell, and identify the theme that will tie it all together.
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Who, Where, and When? Setting and Characters
When it comes to narrative writing, the more details, the better! This organizer page will help students flesh out the characters in their narrative and find the right words to set the scene of time and place.
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Beginning, Middle, and End
Narrative writing tells a story—one with a beginning, middle, and end. Use this page to guide students in crafting the plot that makes up the bulk of their narrative composition. They can make notes of the words they want to use, as well as illustrations to help capture the mood.
What is narrative writing?
Narrative writing tells a story—whether true or fiction. This category includes creative writing like novels, short stories, and epic poems or ballads. It also encompasses memoirs, biographies and autobiographies, and personal narrative essays.
Describe a time when you did something you didn’t want to and ended up liking it.
What is your happiest memory?
Write about a time when you or someone you know displayed courage.
Explore a time when you felt you were treated unfairly.
When was the last time you questioned something you had thought to be true?
Describe a performance or sporting event you took part in.
Tell about a time when you made a mistake and had to apologize and/or fix it.
Write about meeting your best friend for the first time and how your relationship developed.
Tell the story of your first day of kindergarten.
Describe a time when you had to make a difficult decision.
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Opinion writing can be a lot of fun—everyone loves a chance to share their point of view! But there’s more to this type of writing than simply stating what you believe. You need reasons and evidence to support your view. Our free opinion writing graphic organizer guides students through the process.
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Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer Sheets
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Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer Printables
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Opinion Writing Overview
This page helps students refine their opinion statement, then come up with reasons and evidence to support it. For opinion writing, evidence can include facts and statistics, but writers can also use anecdotes, personal experiences, or quotes from those who agree with their point of view.
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Facts Research Page
Need more room for facts research? This page has space for the facts themselves, plus boxes for sketches or other helpful notes kids can refer to as they write.
What’s the best meal of the day: breakfast, lunch, or dinner?
Should homework be required, optional, or not given at all?
What animal makes the best pet?
Would you rather live at the bottom of the ocean or on the moon?
Should kids be allowed to watch TV or play video games on school nights?
Is a hot dog a sandwich?
Are clowns scary or funny?
Where should your class go on their next field trip?
Is it ever OK to eat dessert first?
Should kids get to decide their own bedtime?
Opinion Writing FAQs
What is opinion writing?
In opinion writing, the author states their personal opinion clearly. They back it with several reasons and give supporting facts or evidence to give strength to their claim. This type of writing usually starts with a topic sentence stating the opinion, followed by several paragraphs each devoted to one of the supporting reasons. It finishes with a conclusion that restates the opinions and reasons. Examples of opinion writing include letters to the editor, reviews of books or movies, editorials, or opinion pieces.
What’s the difference between opinion writing and persuasive writing?
Put simply, in opinion writing, you share what you think. In persuasive writing, you try to convince the reader to agree with you or take action of some kind.
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Does opinion writing require evidence?
Yes, good opinion writing should include some evidence to support the author’s point of view. However, in this type of writing, the author doesn’t necessarily need to provide detailed facts and statistics. They may rely more on personal experiences, anecdotes, and quotes from others who agree with them. To make an opinion piece stronger, encourage students to include at least some research-based evidence from reliable sources—try for one simple statistic or reliable fact per supporting reason.
Should opinion writing address opposing viewpoints?
When choosing topics for students, select issues or questions they’ll be likely to have a strong opinion on. This makes it easier for them to state their point of view and come up with supporting reasons and evidence. Try these topics and prompts to get started:
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Students spend a lot of time on informative, or informational, writing (also called expository writing), especially as they get older. Research papers, biographies, informational essays, and how-to guides all fit into this category. This type of writing requires relevant details supported by reliable facts, presented in language that’s clear and unemotional. Introduce elementary students to this important composition style with our free printable informational writing graphic organizers!
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Informational Writing Graphic Organizer Pages
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My Informative Writing Graphic Organizer
Use this one-pager to help students organize their thoughts before they write their first draft. It includes room for a topic sentence, three main supporting facts, and a conclusion. This is perfect for a simple expository topic or writing prompt, especially for beginners.
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Main Facts Organizer
Finding reliable facts that support your topic is a major part of informative writing. This page gives kids room to write their three main facts, including space for diagrams or other helpful pictures or images they may want to refer to. Remind them to make notes about the source and ensure that source is reliable.
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How to … Planner
Informative and expository compositions also include writing clear instructions about how to do specific tasks, like changing a tire or planning and cooking a meal. This page will help kids break a simple task into smaller steps, then write out sentences that flow naturally from one to the next with transition words.
Explain how a new law is passed in the United States.
Describe how to live a healthy lifestyle for someone your age.
Describe the life of a famous artist, musician, actor, or athlete.
Explain the difference between an alligator and a crocodile.
Write about the history of the internet.
Explain how to make a campfire.
Tell about how the average person lived during a specific historic time and place.
Describe the life cycle of any animal.
Write about the history of the Olympics.
Informational Writing FAQs
What is informative writing?
Informative writing (also called expository or informational writing) is intended to explain, describe, or teach readers about a topic. It uses facts and evidence to present the information in clear, detailed language. Examples of informational writing include research papers, lab reports, biographies, informative essays, and how-to guides.
How is informative writing different from opinion or narrative writing?
Informational writing sticks strictly to facts presented in a neutral tone by an unbiased author, without offering an opinion or trying to persuade the reader. Opinion writing uses facts, but the tone is different—it includes personal anecdotes and language meant to play on a reader’s emotions. Narrative writing tells a story (true or fictional), with a clear plot that includes a beginning, middle, and end.
For example, an encyclopedia entry on Kamala Harris is informational writing. A letter to the editor asking people to vote for Kamala Harris in the next election is opinion or persuasive writing. A personal account of what it was like to work for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign is narrative writing.
What are the key components of strong informative writing?
Informational writing includes a clear main idea, well-organized and reliably sourced facts and supporting details, and logical transitions and conclusions. It may use technical language specific to the topic. This type of writing often requires a bibliography or list of research sources.
Why should students use graphic organizers for informational writing?
Informational writing requires research and planning. One common mistake student writers make is including too much information—a graphic organizer can help narrow down the important facts and supporting details. Planning ahead with an organizer leads to stronger main ideas and clearer structure overall, with logical transitions and coherent explanations. Using graphic organizers is especially important for those new to informative writing or students who struggle when writing in general.
How can I help students find reliable sources for informative writing?
Start by teaching students to think critically about the sources of their facts and use primary sources whenever possible. (Wikipedia is not a reliable primary source!) Show them how to identify potential bias, and choose sources that are reliable, neutral, and widely trusted whenever possible. Learn more about helping students find reliable sources for informational writing here.
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